Interestingly enough, reads some years ago that the the author George Orwell or Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World - think it's Huxley from memory - had a brother that was in a secret society, and the novel was a type of Roman à clef. Definition below.

Roman à clef (pronounced roh-máhn a clay) is French for "novel with a key."
It's a novel in which actual events are given a superficial fictional mask;